Daily Republican., 1887-07-08
Nasty.

Tho News OF tho fresidSDt's Flag Order
Teaches the Coruers Col. nc soiter
pe.crib.s What Followed
WAsuINToN, June 81, 1Se7,-The
nocze NV the order Nv his Eggslency,
The President, orderin the COnfederit
flags to be sent back to the States from
wich they emerged in glory betwixt
1861 and 1865, reached the Corners
and prodoosed d sensashun wich hez
never been e,alled sence the justly de-
served, but impoitik, deth Nv the
gorilla Linkin. wich KEEP the Demo
cratic party under fer sevrel more
yeers than wuz necessary. 1t seemed
10 me that the Dimocrisy is alluz
KILN Linkin. Wenever we hev laid
quiet long enuff to hev the peple sort
o. forgit wat we rcelyis, We alluz rise
up and do euthin that shows wat we
wood do cf we Good, and then the
peplc git fritened and put ns in posts
hun soft we can I do nuthin. A Dime
kratic SUCCESS alluz furnishes the peple
with q eggslcnt reason for II over
" helmia Dimekratic defect immejitly
.ollerin, ! can I comprehend it.
The Corners wuz terribly eggsited.
ez they aluz git or occashuns wich
they hcv no speshel interest in. l was
absent in Moo Yoik, but Kernel Nc
Pelter writ me the iollerin account NV
wat follore1. He actid in my sted and
he'd tie horn tootid, witch called the
Dimocrisy to the meetin. house, and a
perceshun was organic d.
Their happened 10 be Il Quarter race
| on that day, best three in i've, $40 a
side; and ez the Bollivcrs owned one
hoss and the Lo0mises another, wich
wuz matched agin eech other, seyeril
bloody ftes wuz cgsspcctid, and so the
entire kentry for miles around WIZ IL.
1t wuZ ecZy to git a crowd to jine tie
Irerceshun, eZ the races WuZ over and
the fltes he'd all come off ceptln wun
wich the popolis wuz willing to forso
In fact, 1t coodent be much Nv u fife
anyhow, ez both parties wuz too iulI
to shoot anything they mite aim at.
The perceshn wuz a impromptoo nj
flare, and consekently ther wuzn''
smuch order or system about it, ba
fther wuz epuff to show the temper w
1.-THE people, and develop ther aspira
fshens and hopee. 1t wuz headed hy
1.-THE JEFF Davis Band playing patriots
lairs, sich cz Dixie" and the "Ronn'
Bloc Flag" followed by the veteran
luv the lnte war kerryin the flags "
1.-THE organizsshuns into witch they ha'
served. Ez uobndy from the Corner
went into the Coniedrit Army regler
but served ther koutry ez bushwhacN
ers, sellin the Fedrels pervisEins b
day and pickin off ther pikkilts at mite
tgittin rite smart plunder from the
bodies, the flags wuzn't eggsackly sic
ez he'd brnved the battle storm. The
wuz mostly sich ez we had yoosed o
toccashnns when, doorin the Norther
-Iinsurreckshun, VIC he'd heer6 Nv Cor
lfedrit victory, and he'd he'd perceshun
land sich in honor thereof. HoweyeI
D Ito bring them out wuz list ez tittin c
tho they he'd bin actoosi battle ii1g
land more, too. TOR they fit the ackshe
Nv His kggslency much better. "!
Eorder seemed TO be sort of u busl
effare anyhow.
}l Melpdy Pogram hrot out the rclit
tbrot home from the fust Bull Run /
ther brothers. wich wuz the skull Nv
lMishigan Fedrel insurgent, polishe
Into tobacco holder, the thigh Dor
luv sevrel Fedrel insurgents (looashc
unknewn), and Kernel M'Pnelt'
> leggshi&ited his relics NV the prison
!" Andersonville, wher, for time,
S held a posishen. He shot anumb
luv pri1ners wich, in their deAriur
crossed the dead line, and he WI
: thottul enuff to preserve suth:n co
knectid with it, that the memory av Il
grate struggle might be kept alive il
EgeBerashuns to come.
arj The iuskripshens on the flags W,
In Aall Nv a patriotic nacher.
'nnI 1.-The yoonited South-Unfo-chn
~ in war-but invincible in peece."
"Wst we lost in the feeid we b.
in the Co,Gnsil."
"His Eggslency the President--Tr
Ito the kore-may he live long To ser
fus."
This nag wuz orc we totcd aFoul
Lwhen A. johnson wuz President
Nv tconsekence NV that lamented Bin
~ crat. Wilkes Booth.)
uGu otiita plh5As hii w shS SaAi
70 ssort, wich hev done dooty in eve
leampane sence the onl9easantnis.
= The Preamble and Hesolooshens :
10 cited the fax that we recognized
- His Eggslency Grover Cleveland
Z Itroo friend Nv the oppressed South, th
b shis fust oflishil act yetoin the inikito
y SPenshun Bill, follered by this ord
n rpstorln the flags to the Confede
States proved beyond question his d
= yoshun to the Democracy and Lis d
(terminashun TO do us, the governmer
t. Likewise that havin gone thus t
he coo6ent stop without going t
- whole hog. wich was penshunin 7
81 Confedrit soljers ekal to the Fedral i
e. e. surgence, payin the Contcdrit debt al
remooneIatin the Contedrit States